A diagram I made a week or two ago, to help clarify some of my political thinking:


( Some political thoughts explained further... )

It's getting late, ended up writing up only about one third of what I planned. Will complete this in a future post, with possibly one more diagram.

New default icon -- I colored the version that Jason Waltrip drew of me (alongside a few dozen other fans) for the anniversary strip of Fans!

Also finally updated the European Union icon - more than a year late. :-)

It's been a while. Ten months or so? Given that, I wonder how long it'll take for *anyone* to notice I made a new post. So I guess I'll just have make this post bright and shiny to increase people's chance of noticing. ;-)

A couple days ago I finished compiling the following, fanart of sorts to one of my three most favorite webcomics, Penny & Aggie and partly inspired by another one of my three most favorite webcomics, The Order of the Stick.



A couple details still irk me on this, but on the whole I think I like. :-)

Too bad I didn't have colored versions for enough of the characters in an appropriate size -- as such for most of them I was forced to resort to their largely expressionless "cast pictures". Ah well.

I think I'll try to be updating my lj a bit more regularly from now on. But we'll see. :-)

During my leave I scanned and uploaded to my Angelfire account a couple pics -- from during an early visit of parents and relatives that we were allowed on the first Sunday, from the parade at the oath ceremony, from my army id card. But I forgot to post them last week.

Angelfire doesn't seem to allow direct linking of images, so here's a hurriedly put-together page to place them in.

They're badly scanned, mind you. I didn't have the time to clean them up at all. And since then I have a couple better photos to show, but they are unscanned.

On more important news - they've placed me in the "Programmer" specialty -- the "Research-Informatics" body of the army. That means that tomorrow I'm heading back to Athens, at Goudi, where I'll stay the next month (or so) for further training, before I go to my normal unit -- which will be at Samos. *g* This is all good.